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 E-Mail Women of the ruling class may have played an important role in the governance of El Argar, a society which flourished in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula between 2200 and 1550 BCE, and which in the last two centuries of its existence, developed into the first state organisation of the western Mediterranean. These are the conclusions reached by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) who led a study analysing the contents of a princely tomb (Grave 38), containing two individuals and a large amount of valuable items. The tomb was discovered in 2014 at the a...

Researchers in Murcia find exquisite objects at women’s graves later used as sites for elite warrior burials

1k shares The comparison of the diadems points to the fact that all of them, despite being remarkably uniform, were highly exclusive pieces.  They were created in a silversmith workshop such as the one recently discovered in Tira del Lienzo, another Argaric site excavated by the same team a few years ago. 'The singularity of these diadems is extraordinary. They were symbolic objects made for these women, thus transforming them into emblematic subjects of the dominant ruling class,' explains Cristina Rihuete, who also took part in the study.  'Each piece is unique, comparable to funerary o...

A society that existed over 4,000 years ago, in modern-day Spain, may have been governed by women. A woman who was adorned with a silver crown and buried with other jewelry in the early Bronze age settlement, challenges the view that men exclusively exercised state power, archeologists say, in a new study published this week in the journal Antiquity . “The La Almoloya discoveries have revealed unexpected political dimensions of the highly...